“No one really wins”: Canadian voting results are almost the same as in 2019 | Election News

“go back to work.”

Analysts said this appeared to be a message from Canadian voters to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s political party on Monday night. Said, As the Liberal Party Reserve power But it failed to obtain almost the same majority of votes as the last federal election in 2019.

Rising Star Mount Saint Vincent University Associate Professor and Chair of Political and Canadian Studies Tammy Findley said: “Canadians are very satisfied with the pre-election government, so with a few exceptions, we almost have the previous government.” Scotia.

this Liberal Party and Opposing Conservative Party In the weeks-long campaign, the people who have dominated Canadian federal politics for decades have been fighting side by side. The campaign mainly revolved around Canada’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.

But the result Similar to 2019, the Liberal Party did not reach the 170 seats required to obtain a majority.

Findlay told Al Jazeera that the results showed that most Canadians want “a government that must cooperate” rather than being dominated by a political party. She said: “This illustrates what Canadians have seen during COVID, that all parties really have to come together and they want to see more.”

preliminary result

The final result of Monday’s vote has not yet been announced because election officials are counting the votes More than one million votes Mailing-Due to the coronavirus, there has been an increase compared to previous years.

But as of Tuesday morning, the Canadian Election preliminary result It shows that the Liberal Party leads or won 158 seats after obtaining 32.2% of the popular vote-one more seat than they won in the 2019 general election.

Although the Conservative Party received a higher 34% of the vote, it is expected to win 119 seats—the same number as the party when the parliament was dissolved before the general election.

Quebec Group, the third candidate in the French-speaking province of Quebec, is expected to win 34 seats, while the left-leaning New Democratic Party (NDP) has 25 seats and 17.7% of the vote. However, when the voting ends this week, the final number of seats won by each party may change.

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Next Parliament, McGill University Professor Daniel Belland Tell Al Jazeera On Monday night, “may look surprisingly similar to the situation at the time of dissolution.”

As was the case in the previous parliament, the New Democratic Party led by Jagmeet Singh and Yves-Francois Blanchet’s Québec group appear to be prepared to maintain power Balance to help Trudeau and the Liberal Party pass legislation.

“Justin Trudeau lost the bet to win the majority, but after a difficult start [the] Election can reverse the situation and continue to govern. Most Canadians don’t want these elections, and now we realize that they haven’t changed much,” Bellander said.

Trudeau mid-August trigger The fast voting conducted two years in advance for the majority was widely criticized for calling elections during the campaign. Fourth wave Of epidemics.

“The Canadians did not give Mr. Trudeau the majority of seats he wanted tonight,” Conservative Party leader O’Toole said in his speech. Concession speech Early on Tuesday. “In fact, the Canadian sent him and another minority back here at the cost of 600 million Canadian dollars and the deeper division of our great country.”

But Trudeau said that the result gave him a “clear mandate” to let Canada survive the pandemic, and he promised to cooperate with other political parties to advance the Liberal Party’s agenda.

Gerald Butts, Trudeau’s former chief secretary, said: “I think the clear message from Canadians is that they like the direction the government brings to the country, but they are not sure whether they are willing to give any Delegated by all people.” Said On CBC News.

“Multiple Reality”

Nonetheless, according to Reuters, many Canadians expressed disappointment with the success of the election—especially because it cost 612 million Canadian dollars (477.6 million US dollars).

“Canadian 44th General Election It’s like a tug of war, the rope won,” political analyst David Moskrop wrote in the Washington Post. Pillar Tuesday.

“Sometimes things happen, but no one really wins. The situation does not get better. There is little or no merit or hope. What happened, what did not happen, and what will happen next is just a cold and grim reality. “Moskrop concluded.

“At least now Canadian politicians can start working again—what they have always been supposed to do—because this country does not pay as much attention to politics as before. Until next time.”

Canadians voted for the country’s 44th parliament on September 20 [Alia Chughtai/Al Jazeera]

The Toronto Star columnist Chantal Herbert also pointed out that this result marks the fifth time that Canada has elected a minority government in the past seven federal elections.

The Conservative and Liberal parties “have the illusion that they will suddenly see all these third parties disappear, and they can go back to the good old days of fighting each other-I don’t think this will happen”, Herbert accepted on Tuesday morning Said in an interview on The Bridge radio show.

Herbert added that the information that can be gleaned from Monday night’s results “just go on, don’t re-elect within 18 months.”

For her part, Findlay of Mount Saint Vincent University stated that she hopes that the opposition parties supporting the next Liberal Minority Government will press Trudeau to fulfill his 2015 election promise and change Canada’s electoral system.

“I think one of the priorities of other parties that need support should be that they really promote electoral reform,” she said. “The message from Canadians is very clear. They want a government that reflects the wishes of the people.”